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Is my monitor dying?

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Original Message
Name: bundleofsticks
Date: October 10, 2005 at 07:27:56 Pacific
Subject: Is my monitor dying?
OS: xp home sp2
CPU/Ram: 1 ghz p3, pc133 256 mb ra
Comment:

Sometimes this weird white line appears at the bottom of my screen that shakes and goes up and down and etc. It usually appears on only white backgrounds. It didn't happen on another monitor I had. Strange how this started happening when I upgraded my Celeron to a P3. Is my monitor dying? I thought they were supposed to last like 20 years I've only had this for 5. It's a Compaq monitor BTW. I don't want to use my other monitor it's too dark.


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Response Number 1
Name: name
Date: October 10, 2005 at 10:13:23 Pacific
Subject: Is my monitor dying?
Reply: (edit)

""I thought they were supposed to last like 20 years I've only had this for 5. It's a Compaq""

I don't know who told you THAT, but the life of your monitor "depends"

If it's used a LOT, like 24/7 in a dispatch center, it will probably not suffer any conponent failures, because it won't be subjected to power on/off surge. It WILL however, wear out the filament/ cathode in the CRT, and become dim

It depends on how much it is used, how much the brightness and contrast is turned up, and so on, and if you are in an area with poor power regulation, subject to power outages, brownouts, or surges caused by things like lightning storms, it 'ain't a gonna last as long.


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Response Number 2
Name: ham30
Date: October 10, 2005 at 11:11:35 Pacific
Subject: Is my monitor dying?
Reply: (edit)

It will either be a defective monitor or video card. Swapping is the only way to determine which it is.


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Response Number 3
Name: bundleofsticks
Date: October 10, 2005 at 16:32:47 Pacific
Subject: Is my monitor dying?
Reply: (edit)

Hmm, well I do turn it on and off a lot.


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Response Number 4
Name: bundleofsticks
Date: October 10, 2005 at 22:37:16 Pacific
Subject: Is my monitor dying?
Reply: (edit)

Damn it, monitors suck then. They should last forever. I'm not paying $150 for a new one.


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Response Number 5
Name: GX1 Man
Date: October 11, 2005 at 22:25:17 Pacific
Subject: Is my monitor dying?
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Who made that up? Be glad you got 5 years.

You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users


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